§ 156.05. DEFINITIONS.

For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.

BOND. Any form of security including cash deposit, surety bond, collateral, or instrument of credit in an amount and form satisfactory to the city. All BONDS shall be approved by the city wherever a BOND is required by these regulations.

CITY. The City of Lakeland.

CONDITIONAL USE. A land use or development as defined by ordinance that may not be appropriate generally, but may be allowed with appropriate restrictions as provided by official controls upon a finding that:

(1) Certain conditions as detailed in the Zoning Ordinance exist;

(2) The use or development conforms to city zoning regulations; and

(3) Is compatible with the existing neighborhood.

CONFINED AQUIFER. An aquifer overlain by a confining layer of impermeable material.

CONTOUR MAP. A map on which irregularities of land surface are shown by lines connecting points of equal elevations. Contour interval is the vertical height between contour lines.

COUNTY. Washington County.

FENCE. A partition, structure, wall, or gate erected as a dividing marker, visual or physical barrier or enclosure.

GRADING. The removal, depositing, or moving of more than 50 cubic yards of sand, gravel, rock, soil, clay, or other deposits in less than a 1-year period on any parcel.

HOLIDAY. New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day.

LOCAL GOVERNING BODY. The City of Lakeland City Council.

MINING.

(1) The excavation, removal, storage, or processing of sand, gravel, rock, soil, clay, or other deposits.

(2) MINING shall not include the excavation, removal, or storage of rock, sand, dirt, gravel, clay, or other material for the following purposes:

(a) Excavation for the foundation, cellar, or basement of some pending structure for which a permit has been issued and which is to be erected immediately following the excavation, removal, or storage;

(b) On-site construction of approved roads, sewer lines, storm sewers, water mains, surface water drainage approved by the city, agriculture or conservation purposes, sod removal, or other public utilities;

(c) Landscaping purposes on a lot used or to be used as a building site; or

(d) Grading/excavation of less than 1 acre of land in conjunction with improvement of a site for lot development, providing activities will be completed in 1 year.

OPERATOR. The person, partnership, company, corporation, or other business entity engaged in or proposing to engage in a mining operation. In the event the OPERATOR is not the fee owner of the land to be mined, then the fee owner's consent shall be required.

OVERBURDEN. Those materials which lie between the surface of the earth and the mineral deposit to be mined.

OWNER. An individual, firm, association, syndicate, co-partnership, corporation, trust, estate, lessee, or any other legal entity having sufficient proprietary interest in the land sought to be mined to commence and maintain proceeding to mine the same under these regulations.

PERFORMANCE STANDARDS. Those standards, operating conditions, reclamation standards, and other requirements contained in §§ 156.03, 156.17, and 156.18.

PERSON. Any individual, firm, association, syndicate or partnership, corporation, trust, estate, or any other legal entity.

PLANNING COMMISSION. The City Planning Commission.

PROCESSING. Any activity which may include the crushing, washing, stockpiling, compounding, mixing, or treatment of sand, gravels, rocks, or similar mineral products into consumable products such as construction grade sand, gravel, concrete, asphalt, and other similar products.

RECLAMATION, RESTORATION, REHABILITATION. To renew land to a self-sustaining, long-term use which is compatible with contiguous land uses and which process shall include the reestablishment of vegetation, soil stability and establishment of safe conditions appropriate to the intended use of land in accordance with the city's Comprehensive Plan and the conditional use permit conditions allowing for excavation and/or processing on the site.

STOCKPILING. Storage of processed or raw materials on the site of the sand, gravel, or rock operation.

SURVEY, LAND. The process of determining boundaries and areas of tracts of land.

TOPSOIL. That portion of the overburden which lies within the "A" and "B" horizon of soil closest to the surface and which supports the growth of vegetation.

UNCONFINED AQUIFER. An aquifer not naturally protected by a confining bed, also known as the WATER TABLE AQUIFER.

(Prior Code, Ch. 901 § 4.1)